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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a flexible and specific approach for students to engage and learn in. It focuses on the learning environment for each individual student and the accommodations they might need, strengthening their chances of learning and enjoying it

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UDL provides direct accommodations for each student, ensuring they are being supported and motivated through their work. With specific materials and lessons for a classroom environment, students become more knowledgeable and motivated. Students' brains become stimulated with the use of UDL in the classroom since they are offered a range of assignments, including media resources within the material.

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Open Educational Resources (OER), are a set of materials offered for free for educators and are utilized to adapt to their learning environments and lessons for their students. These materials range from textbooks, videos, and software/platforms to accommodate to each student.

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Open Educational Resources concept: What is an OER?

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OER are free educational materials being offered by professional educators, who have experience in the field they are in. This can immensely support a teacher's finances while also remaining just as supportive and accommodating for students. Educators know their students well enough to know what materials are necessary for their classroom. OER in the classroom consists of using shared textbooks, and online resources, and incorporating these materials into their classroom.

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Equity, accessibility, and availability can be addressed by using both UDL and OER since they create a dynamic and unique environment to learn. By accommodating an individual student with the shared materials supported by OER, students feel the support with the additional help they are being offered. Each student has an equal opportunity to succeed with the support and proper motivation.

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Utilizing UDL and OER in the future would be an excellent idea considering it allows teachers to form connections with their students by being able to tell what exactly a student needs, and to accommodate to them while also sharing materials and lessons with other educators. Sharing materials increases the diversity of education material since it comes fro different perspectives, creating an inclusive and engaging environment.

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William and Flora Hewlett Foundation - OER

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William and Flora Hewlett Foundation - OER

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The overarching goal of our Open Education strategy is to strengthen every student's learning experiences by the effective use of open educational resources and practices. To do that, we prioritize developing effective pedagogy and practice along with content, building capacity for education systems to implement OER, and supporting a field that is responsive to diverse educators and learners.

To make these strategic priorities concrete, we focus on three different sets of partners who can benefit from our work in open education. The first two below together account for approximately 75% of our grant dollars.

1. Educators and students: We need to make sure that teachers understand how to take advantage of the flexibility of openly licensed resources and are equipped with the knowledge and tools to customize materials for different students.

2. Education systems: Implementing and sustaining OER depends on policy decisions surrounding several issues, including the adoption and procurement of materials, incentives for educators to use and share materials, and teachers' access to appropriate professional learning opportunities. Collaborating on these issues with systems leaders is essential to our ability to implement OER within and across schools.

3. OER field: Mindful that momentum in the field is global in nature, we need to nurture a diverse and inclusive ecosystem that shares open content, practices, and resources. Our field-building efforts include lines of work focused on increasing grantee collaboration; promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion; building research capacity; and attracting new funding for open education.

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Since its support for open educational resources (OER) began in 2002, our foundation's goal has always been to equalize access to knowledge by making high quality educational materials and opportunities more broadly available. OER - freely licensed, remixable learning resources - offer a promising solution to the perennial challenge of delivering high levels of student...

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Learn about CAST’s Universal Design for Learning framework, fostering inclusive educational experiences and improving learning outcomes for all learners.